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“Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled by him, but from under his arm to be protected by him, near to his heart to be loved by him.”

Matthew Henry

Source: An Exposition of the Old and New Testament

“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”

Matthew Henry

Genesis 2:21.
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Variant: Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
Source: Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

“Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.”

Matthew Henry

“Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.”

Matthew Henry

A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song (1835), p. 418.

“It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.”

Matthew Henry

Jeremiah 7.
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“Whatever we have, the property of it is God's; we have only the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honour.”

Matthew Henry

Luke 16.
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Matthew Henry Quotes about God

“It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.”

Matthew Henry

Source: Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

“The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.”

Matthew Henry

“In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.”

Matthew Henry

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 281.

“Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.”

Matthew Henry

Daniel 4:34-37.
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“An active faith can give thanks for a promise even though it be not yet performed, knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money.”

Matthew Henry

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 241.

Matthew Henry Quotes

“Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.”

Matthew Henry

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 9.
Source: Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

Affliction

“None is so deaf as those that will not hear.”

Matthew Henry

Psalm 58.
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Variant: None so blind as those that will not see.

“They that die by famine die by inches.”

Matthew Henry

Psalm 59.
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“After a storm comes a calm.”

Matthew Henry

Acts 9.
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“Not lost, but gone before.”

Matthew Henry

Matthew 2.
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“The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.”

Matthew Henry

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 280.

Books , Way , Understanding , Reading

“It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."”

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 30.
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“Men of polite learning and a liberal education.”

Matthew Henry

Acts 10.
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Men , Education , Learning

“Saying and doing are two things.”

Matthew Henry

Matthew 21.
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“Those that are above business.”

Matthew Henry

Matthew 20.
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Business

“It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.”

Matthew Henry

Timothy 1.
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“Judas had given them the slip.”

Matthew Henry

Luke 22.
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“To fish in troubled waters.”

Matthew Henry

Psalm 60.
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Fish , Water

“Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.”

Matthew Henry

Ecclesiastes 7.
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“He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.”

Matthew Henry

Psalm 36.
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“It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.”

Matthew Henry

Timothy 3.
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Business

“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.”

Matthew Henry

Genesis 3.
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“To their own second thoughts.”

Matthew Henry

Job 6.
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“Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.”

Matthew Henry

Proverbs 7.
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“So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.”

Matthew Henry

Job 3.
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Pain

“The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve the purity of it.”

Matthew Henry

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 148.

Peace , Way

“Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.”

Matthew Henry

Reported in The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Matthew Henry (1830), p. 134.

Anger

“I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.”

Matthew Henry

First reported in Arnold Gingrich, Coronet, Volume 17‎ (1944), which characterizes the quote as a diary entry. A much earlier report in "Life of the Rev. Matthew Henry", in Christian Biography (1799), p. 66, has Henry writing:
What reason have I to be thankful to God, that having travelled so much, yet I was never robbed before now. 2. What abundance of evil this love of money is the root of, that four men should venture their lives and souls for ubout half-a-crown a-piece. 3. See the power of Satan working in the children of disobedience. 4. The vanity of worldly wealth—how soon we may be stript of it, how loose we ought to sit to it.
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Life

“Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.”

Matthew Henry

Psalm 104.
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Life , Heart

“The better day, the worse deed.”

Matthew Henry

Genesis 3.
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